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Integrating Care for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

Integrating Care for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees. Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Jennifer Coleman, Senior Advisor. September 2011. Who are Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees?.

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Integrating Care for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

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  1. Integrating Care for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Jennifer Coleman, Senior Advisor September 2011

  2. Who are Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees? 9.2 million individuals (2008) that are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid (or “dual eligibles”). More likely to have mental illness, have limitations in activities of daily living and multiple chronic conditions. Few are served by coordinated care models and even fewer are in integrated models that align Medicare and Medicaid. Coleman

  3. Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office • Section 2602 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) • Purpose: Improve quality, reduce costs, and improve the beneficiary experience. • Ensure dually eligible individuals have full access to the services to which they are entitled. • Improve the coordination between the federal government and states. • Develop innovative care coordination and integration models. • Eliminate financial misalignments that lead to poor quality and cost shifting. Coleman

  4. Medicare-Medicaid Coordination OfficeMajor Areas of Work The Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office is working on a variety of initiatives to improve access, coordination and cost of care for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees in the following areas: • Program Alignment • Data and Analytics • Models and Demonstrations Coleman

  5. Program Alignment GroupAlignment Initiative • Pursue opportunities to better align Medicare and Medicaid requirements to advance seamless care for dual eligibles. • Alignment Initiative: Initiative to identify and address conflicting requirements between two programs that are potential barriers to seamless and cost effective care. • Published as Notice for Public Comment May 16th • Formal comment period ended July 11th . • All comments are publicly available. • Local Listening Sessions held for: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, California, Arizona, Nevada, Kansas Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and other Territories. Coleman

  6. Data and Analytics • Create national and state profiles of dual eligibles. • Analyze impact of eligibility pathways to better understand beneficiary experience. • Improve state access to Medicare data for care coordination, including timely availability of Medicare Parts A, B and D data. • 5/11/2011 Informational Bulletin available at: http://www.cms.gov/CMCSBulletins/downloads/Coordinated-Care-Info-Bulletin.pdf • Leverage other CMS initiatives to analyze dual population Coleman 6

  7. State Demonstrations to Integrate Care for Dual Eligibles 15 states selected receive up to $1 million to design new models for serving Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees. Goal is to develop, test, and validate fully integrated delivery system and care coordination models that can be replicated in other States. Participating States: CA, CO, CT, MA, MI, MN, NY, NC, OK, OR, SC, TN, VT, WA, WI One year contracts through April 2012. Coleman

  8. Financial Alignment Models to Support State Efforts to Integrate Care • CMS seeks to test two financial alignment models with States to support integration of primary, acute behavioral health and long term services and supports for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. • Capitated Model: three-way contract among State, CMS and health plan to provide comprehensive, coordinated care. • Managed FFS Model: Agreement between State and CMS under which State would be eligible to benefit from savings resulting from initiatives to reduce costs in both Medicaid and Medicare. • Open to all States able to meet established standards and conditions, including target implementation in 2012. • State Medicaid Director Letter provided initial guidance on two models available at: https://www.cms.gov/SMDL/SMD/list.asp • State Letters of Intent are due October 1st Coleman

  9. Demonstration to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations of Nursing Facility Residents • To reduce preventable inpatient hospitalizations among residents of nursing facilities (NF) by funding new entities to provide additional supports to provide these individuals with the treatment they need without having to unnecessarily go to a hospital. • Could include use of nurse practitioners to: • Reduce avoidable hospitalizations; • Support transitions between hospitals and NF; and • Implement best practices to prevent falls, pressure ulcers, urinary tract infections and other events that lead to poor outcomes. Coleman

  10. Questions & Suggestions: MedicareMedicaidCoordination@cms.hhs.gov For more information, visit: http://www.cms.gov/medicare-medicaid-coordination/ Coleman

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